It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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